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METHOD OF ORNAMENTING WOVEN CLOTH FABRICS. No 288,249, Patented-Nov. 13, 1883.

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METHOD OF ORNAMENTING WOVEN CLOTH FABRICS.

' SPECIFICATION forming part 'of Letters Patent No. 288,249, dated November 13, 1883.

Application. filed April 5,1883. (no model.)

Tea/ll whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Honncn MALTBY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Stapleton, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, and ADRIAN K. GARDNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Ornamenting Woven Cloth Fabrics; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention consists in producing on a woven cloth fabric raised ornamentations, which are taken out of the body of the cloth without reducing its width; also, in the method or process of produ cing such raised ornamentations.

In the drawings, Figure l is'a garment the cloth of which 'coptains our improvement.

' Figs. 2 and 3are pieces of cloth on which is produced the improvement. Fig. 4 is a crosssection of the piece of cloth shown in Fig 2, taken through the line ac. Fig. 5 is a crosssection of the piece of cloth shown in Fig. 3, taken through the line y y.

In producing the said raised ornamentations we proceed as follows: There is first stitched onto the woven cloth fabric 0, either before or after it is made up into garments, a piece'of buckram or crin oline, a, thelines of stitching in the instance given being two parallel lines, b b, forming the boundaries of the portion of the cloth, 0, to be operated on in producing the raised portion. There is then passed into the pocket thus made a former, d. The surface of the cloth 0 above this former cl and between the lines of stitching b I) being stretched is first wet. Then a hot iron is passed over such wet portion until the moisture is absorbed by the heat. Then the former d is to be withdrawn,

and there is left a raised portion of the cloth a between said rows of stitching 6]), which partakes of the shape in its contour of the former d. No other portion of the cloth fabric is shrunk or narrowed by reason of the operation. To produce the best effect, the buckram or crinoline a should notbe sewed on on the bias.- An additional piece of buckrani or crinoline, e, however, may be placed onthe bias between the backing a. and the cloth fabric, as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and the former dis then inserted between the backing a and the buckram 6. The piece 6, being on the bias, will stretch upward with the section of the cloth 0, and after the operation of wetting and ironing out and withdrawal of the former d the piece 6 will be found as a re-enforce to the raised ornament, as seen in Fig. 5 of the draw ings, and will help to preserve the shape of such ornament, especially if the cloth is fine and soft in its texture.

The former (i may be of shape required for the ornament to be produced on the surface of the cloth operated upon.

We claim- 1. The method of producing raised ornamentation on the surface of woven cloth fabrics without reducing the surface thereof, consisting in securing a strip of backing to one side of the material to form a pocket, then moistening the fabric to be ornamented, inserting a former into the pocket, and applying heat and pressure, and subsequently withdrawing the former, substantially as described.

2. Awoven cloth fabric having raised ornamentations on its surface formed of the fabric itself and a backing consistingof a strip of textile material stitched to the fabric along the boundaries of the raised portion thereof, and a re-enforcing strip of textile material at tached to the fabric on a bias, substantially as shown and described.

HORACE MALTBY. ADRIAN K. GARDNER. XVitnesses:

J AMES H. HUNTER, Bnnrrn H. MnnsrrALL."

STAPLETON, NEV YORK, AND ADRIAN K. GARDNER, 

